Chondrichthyans are apex predators influencing the trophic web through a top-down process thus their depletion will affect remaining biota. Notwithstanding that, research on chondrichthyans is sparse or data-limited in several biogeographic areas worldwide, including Levantine Sea. We revise and update knowledge of Cyprus based bibliographic review that gains information retrieved from peer-rev...

The Levantine Basin (LB) is still considered a void as regards its cetacean fauna: species population abundance and distribution patterns are unknown, and even the list of species and their regional status have so far not been finalized. In an effort to fill the knowledge gap, we present original data collected in the LB over the years 1993-2009. The data relies on strandings, bycatch victims a...

Archeomagnetic data from the Levant revealed periods within Holocene with fast and extreme changes in geomagnetic field. Yet, availability of archeomagnetic is sporadic correlation available sedimentary records region rather poor. To further explore decadal variations directions field, we investigate three outcrops late Dead Sea that are exposed along western retreating shores modern lake. The ...

Abstract Horned-helmet imagery continues to raise questions about what is local and global in Bronze Age Europe. How similar the found on Sardinia, southwestern Iberia southern Scandinavia material appearance, medium of representation, sociocultural setting? Does it occur at same point time? spring from or transmit a shared idea? Analysis reveals intriguing patterns similarity difference betwee...

Due to a lack of visible tephras in the Dead Sea record, this unique palaeoenvironmental archive is largely unconnected well-established Mediterranean tephrostratigraphy. Here we present first results ongoing search for cryptotephras International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) sediment core from deep basin. This study focusses on Lateglacial (~15–11.4 cal. ka BP), when Lake Lisan – precur...

The spatial distribution and temporal trends of trace metals (i.e. Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb Zn) a metalloid As) along the Spanish Mediterranean coast from 1993 to 2013 are presented with new estimation their background levels monitored using wild mussels. Over 20 years period, yearly mussel monitoring was undertaken rigorous field sampling protocol 3 pooled samples strategy (3 x n = 80, 8 mussels in 3.0 ...

A case study to evaluate the use of microfading spectrometry (MFS) for the study of colored systems found in prehistoric rock art paintings was conducted in the Cova Remígia rock-shelter, Castellón (Spain). This rock shelter is part of the rock art sites of the Mediterranean basin on the Iberian Peninsula included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Some of the paintings belonging to this group ar...